Months after the cylinder bomb blasts in Coimbatore and Mangalore, the terror organisation, the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) has claimed responsibility for both the acts.

Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) is a terrorist organisation designated by the UN. It made the claims in the latest issue of its propaganda magazine ‘Voice of Khurasan’ released on Saturday. In the same issue, the organisation also called out to its “operatives” in the Southern part of India to wage a war against Hindus and the country’s ruling BJP.

“Do you not consider our attacks in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, in Bangalore [the author of the magazine wrote Bangalore instead of Mangaluru], where our brothers took revenge for the honour of our religion and terrorised kufar [non-Muslims and disbelievers] and its followers?” the magazine reads.

During the wee hours of the day before Deebavali in 2022, Jamesha Mubeen, a 29-year old was killed when a car carrying LPG cylinders exploded near the Kottai Easwaran temple in Coimbatore. The blast occurred around 4 am in the Ukkadam area.

This was suspected as an act of terror by Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai. He called it an intelligence failure and was vocal about the laxity in the DMK Government’s approach to the case that was trivialised as a mere ‘gas cylinder blast’.

The NIA investigation revealed that the blast was indeed meant to be a terror attack. In its statement, the NIA said “According to preliminary investigations, the accused Jamesha Mubeen, after taking bayath / oath to ISIS was planning to carry out suicidal attacks and cause extensive damage to symbols and monuments of a particular religious faith and with the intention to strike terror among a particular section of a community.”

It was also found that one of the accused was linked to the 1998 CBE serial blast convicts.

The NIA investigation and the present statement by IS Khorasan has vindicated the fact that the blast was indeed a terror act.

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After Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States could face a possible terror attack carried out by Al Qaeda or  ISIS-K, ISKP or IS-Khorasan in the next six to eighteen months, it has been revealed that a large number of abandoned allies of the US in Afghanistan have joined ISIS, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) 

This is all due to the US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan and in that process, a large number of their ‘abandoned’ spies and allies in order to survive have joined hands with the radical jihadist Islamist outfits like ISIS. 

But the irony is that the Taliban which is in itself is a puritanical Islamist regime, sees ISIS as a direct threat to its authority in Afghanistan.

According to the WSJ, the Taliban has claimed that the number of such US allies are now, defecting to ISIS which means they now bring tradecraft, warfare techniques, and intelligence gathering expertise that could seriously undermine the Taliban government which is already vulnerable as the new regime do not have any money to govern.

What is now troubling the US is that former Afghan national army officials and men from the Afghan Republic’s Intelligence and Military have also have joined the ISIS-K in recent weeks after the Taliban revealed that an army officer was killed in the past week while fighting the Taliban.

Ex-head of the National Directorate of Security, Rahmatullah Nabil, said, “In some areas, ISIS has become very attractive. If there were a resistance, they (former Afghan security and defence forces) would have joined the resistance. For the time being, ISIS is the only other armed group.”

After the US forces left Afghanistan, in perhaps the worst form of retreat and abandoning of its allies, thousands of ex-soldiers, former police officials, and Afghan Republic Intelligence officers suddenly were unemployed under constant threat of being killed by the Taliban despite being assured of amnesty

So these intelligence officers and ex-officials who worked in the National Directorate of Security who have no money were provided with large sums of money and assurance of security against the Taliban regime by ISIS.

The Taliban and ISIS are both followers of Islam but the former follow Salafi Islam and the Taliban adhere to the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam or Deobandi movement based in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh.

Though once rivals, as per the WSJ report, US Intelligence did provide information to the Taliban, but they are reluctant to consider ISIS-K as a major threat because it would give the latter credence in a place where any form of weakness is viewed as a sign of defeat.

Senior Taliban leader Mawlawi Zubair remarked, “We are not faced with a threat nor are we worried about them. There is no need, not even a tiny need, for us to seek assistance from anyone against ISIS.” He further added, “In the current situation, we are not dealing with a few difficulties, we are facing many. If we get rid of all our economic and administrative problems, ISIS will disappear in 15 days in all of Afghanistan.”

But what is unimaginable is that after the US left Afghanistan the Biden administration willfully handed out a list of American citizens, Afghan allies, biometric data, and green card holders to the Taliban which is not known for its amnesty. This blunder is now been seen as the reason why many former allies who were trained by the US have now joined ISIS-K because there are many reports of the Taliban executing army officers, police, and intelligence personals as an act of revenge.

With access to the biometric devices, along with weapons, vehicles, and ammunition left behind by the fleeing Americans Taliban started going door-to-door in search of Afghan interpreters and US allies and as a matter of survival many have joined ISIS.

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As the United States Air Force brought the remains of 13 fallen service members who were killed in the Kabul airport attack to be buried with honor in their final resting place, Kathy McCollum, mother Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum, 20 called President Joe Biden a “dementia-ridden piece of crap”, reports dailymail.

President Joe Biden is all set to meet with the families of the 13 fallen service members on Sunday but before that meeting, an inconsolable Kathy McCollum said in a radio interview said, “My son was one of the Marines that died yesterday.'[He was] getting ready to come home from freaking Jordan to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son,’ McCollum said. ‘And that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.’

Kathy said that she was awakened at four o’clock with Marines on her door telling her son was dead as she gave an emotional account.

President Biden flew to Delaware on Sunday morning for a ceremony to honor the service members killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber. He could be seen holding his right hand to his chest, as the flag-draped bodies of service members were flown in from Kabul in C-17 Globemaster plane.

The 13 killed on Thursday were Navy corpsman Max Soviak, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, and Marines Hunter Lopez, Rylee McCollum, David Lee Espinoza, Kareem Nikoui, Jared Schmitz, Daegan Page, Taylor Hoover, Humberto Sanchez, Johanny Rosario, Dylan Merola and Nicole Gee.

The mother of the fallen marine Rylee McCollum was very generous with her words for President Biden and the democratic party when she said, “My son is gone, and I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son with dementia ridden piece of crap who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House who still thinks he’s a senator,”.

The death toll was the highest for any single incident since 2011 and Biden has been accused by some of the troops’ families of putting them in harm’s way.  

In a statement on Saturday, Biden said, ‘The 13 service members that we lost were heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our highest American ideals and while saving the lives of others. Their bravery and selflessness has enabled more than 117,000 people at risk to reach safety thus far. May God protect our troops and all those standing watch in these dangerous days,”.

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Embattled President of the United States (US) Joe Biden has said that he will avenge the killing of 13 US armed forces personnel who died in the suicide bombing attacks at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, reports Hindustan Times.

Speaking at the White House, Biden said, “To those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes America harm know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.” He also said, “We have some reason to believe we know who they are … not certain.”

Vice President Kamla Harris called the dead and wounded Americans heroes and said, “Doug and I grieve for the Americans we lost, we pray for the Americans injured in the attack, and our hearts go out to their loved ones. We also grieve for the Afghan civilians killed and injured. Our country is grateful to all our women and men in uniform, and in particular, those working today to get Americans and our Afghan partners out of harm’s way. And we will complete that mission,”.

As per reports, 13 US marines were killed and as many as 18 more were injured amid the evacuation efforts led by the US and other countries to get US servicemen and Afghan citizens who helped them ahead of Biden’s 31 August withdrawal deadline.

CNN reports that the terror attack was carried out by ISIS-Khorasan and US’ Department of Defence had also warned of a similar attack earlier this year.

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